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Lovers of fine art and collectors of fine art will be giving thanks to John McInnis Auctioneers on Thanksgiving weekend with a pair of fine art auctions.

A small selection of Bloom鈥檚 drawings from Lubec make up 鈥淟andscapes of the Mind,鈥� on view at the Museum of Fine Arts until Dec. 1.

HEW LOCKE: THE PROCESSION 140 life-size figures make up 鈥淭he Procession,鈥� British artist Hew Locke鈥檚 sprawling, carnival-esque installation commissioned by the Tate Britain in 2022.

The Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire will permanently close, director Kristina L. Durocher announced in an open letter to faculty, staff, and students last week.

At Danforth Art Museum in Framingham, Boston Expressionists John Brook, Steven Trefonides, and Kahlil Gibran get their due

This thematic selection from the work of Hyman Bloom, subtitled Matters of Life and Death at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, focuses on some of the artist鈥檚 most controversial works, his deeply disturbing studies of human corpses and medical cadavers, contextualizing them...

Top 10 lists, bless their hearts, are subjective to an obvious fault: I didn鈥檛 see everything, because no one could, so there will surely be omissions beyond taste and reason that deserve some love.

Where are the great Christmas tree paintings in art history?

This eponymous exhibition brings works from Biggers鈥檚 sadly-ongoing BAM series 鈥� sadly, because it eulogizes unarmed black victims of police gun violence, and ongoing for reasons that should be obvious.

Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America鈥檚 first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.

The paintings of putrefying corpses and splayed-open cadavers made by Hyman Bloom between 1943 and 1954 constitute one of the most extraordinary and disturbingly beautiful bodies of work in American art.

Contradiction is the heart of the work of Hyman Bloom.

In Hyman Bloom鈥檚 ecstatic paintings, old, bearded men with knobby fingers, in wide-brimmed fur hats, clutch Torah scrolls. Enlarge image Hyman Bl

Hyman Bloom, who has died aged 96, was one of the last survivors of the thousands of artists who benefited from the patronage of President Franklin

In the back room at the Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea, a Norman Foster glass and steel table struggles to keep up with the streamlined efficiency and